Labor
Person of the Year: The French worker on strike
December 23, 2019The government is counting on the inconvenience wearing people down, but rather than being fed up with what is sometimes called an “entitled” working class, more people are joining the cause.
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USMCA: Mixed messages from union leaders precede House OK of ‘New NAFTA’
December 19, 2019While an improvement, USMCA is not a template for a progressive vision of trade that puts at its core good jobs and rising wages.
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Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians strike for patient care
December 19, 2019Some 4,000 mental health clinicians began a one-week strike Dec. 16 demanding health care parity.
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Staff at civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center unionizes
December 18, 2019The staff decided to unionize after months of turmoil at the SPLC, the nation’s top tracker of hate groups.
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“New NAFTA not perfect, but better than the sh*t show we started with”
December 17, 2019The impeachment vote is expected to fall along party lines, but Public Citizen's Lori Wallach predicts USMCA bill will get a large bipartisan majority.
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